And so, after a further seventy years as founding
editor of c|net's
ghost town section Resources and
former editorial site search.com,
he bagged his day job, migrated East, and became a
freelance writer.

There, he fell in with two undercover writers who had spent the previous two decades perfecting the use of words as a lethal weapon. These two--Morgan Frew and Gil Bates--work secretly with Lake in nefarious ways.

Collectively, they became The Man With The Disk Drive Head. And why not?

Writing for a living brings great luxuries, such as food, Goodwill clothing, and shelter in cheap parts of the country.
The only people who will pay writers to write are rich
corporations. Rich corporations eat their own young for
breakfast. Freelancers qualify as no more than a snack.
Plumbers get--and deserve--more respect than freelance
writers. Buy a wrench instead. If you can't mend pipes with the
damn thing, it may come in handy for wielding around corporate
accounts departments.